Class Note 1979
Issue
March-April 2022
February marks Doug Canning’s 25th year as chief of the division of pediatric urology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). “It is a wonderful place to work. I never have a bad day. I finished at Dartmouth Medical School in 1982; was in the Navy for residency, fellowship and four years of service in San Diego; then moved to CHOP in 1992. I expected to spend a few years, but I fell in love with CHOP. Annabelle (Brainard) ’81 and I are celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary this June. We have come a long way since meeting in November 1977 in ‘line 4’ at Thayer. On October 23, 2021, our son, John ’14, and new daughter-in-law Alexia Pereira ’14 were married here in Philadelphia after an 11-year courtship! Alexia and John met at Russell Sage as they were moving in during freshman week. Fifteen Dartmouth graduates in the wedding party and lots of other Dartmouth alumni attended. Our daughter, Caroline ’18, is a second-year student at SUNY Downstate. Our daughter, Madeline (Colgate ’18), works in the offices of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88. We are never far from Dartmouth’s long arm!”
John Carson writes, “While living primarily in St. Petersburg, Florida, my wife and I have finally finished a house in Kamas, Utah, just outside of Park City. To no one’s surprise, there’s a large Dartmouth community there, and it is even less surprising that Bill Mitchell, who apparently skied 120-plus days last season, is deeply involved. I was volunteering last winter as a translator (thank you, language study abroad in Granada, Spain) at Park City’s major vaccination site when one of the cars pulled slightly out of line and out stepped Bill (Bray Mitchell was driving) saying, ‘Is that John Carson from Dartmouth?’ I was swaddled in snow gear and was absolutely unrecognizable, but Bill was able to read my name tag and, having never met a stranger, rose to the occasion. He and Bray were kind enough to host a class of ’79 mini-reunion later that month. In attendance were Dave Klinges, Laurie (Laidlaw) Deacon, Ellen (Gomprecht) Oppenheim, Holly (Grainger) Clark, Anne Boulet, and of course, Bill and Bray Mitchell.”
—Janie Simms Hamner, 7327 Centenary Ave., Dallas, TX 75225; jshandkids@aol.com
John Carson writes, “While living primarily in St. Petersburg, Florida, my wife and I have finally finished a house in Kamas, Utah, just outside of Park City. To no one’s surprise, there’s a large Dartmouth community there, and it is even less surprising that Bill Mitchell, who apparently skied 120-plus days last season, is deeply involved. I was volunteering last winter as a translator (thank you, language study abroad in Granada, Spain) at Park City’s major vaccination site when one of the cars pulled slightly out of line and out stepped Bill (Bray Mitchell was driving) saying, ‘Is that John Carson from Dartmouth?’ I was swaddled in snow gear and was absolutely unrecognizable, but Bill was able to read my name tag and, having never met a stranger, rose to the occasion. He and Bray were kind enough to host a class of ’79 mini-reunion later that month. In attendance were Dave Klinges, Laurie (Laidlaw) Deacon, Ellen (Gomprecht) Oppenheim, Holly (Grainger) Clark, Anne Boulet, and of course, Bill and Bray Mitchell.”
—Janie Simms Hamner, 7327 Centenary Ave., Dallas, TX 75225; jshandkids@aol.com